What we learned Sunday as we filled out the rest of the Sweet 16 slots in the 2013 NCAA Tournament:

Cody Zeller got lucky. Several other All-Americans are now eating nachos instead of prepping for the Sweet 16, and Zeller should be one of them. If not for Victor Oladipo’s rescue job, Zeller would’ve drifted off to the NBA as a star who failed his team when it mattered most. Zeller was mostly a zombie on Sunday, showing little to no fight. He left shots short consistently, was flat-footed on defense, failed to protect the rim, made poor decisions on pick-and-roll, gave up what seemed like a million second chances to Temple. If he were half as tough as teammate Jordan Hulls, Zeller would be unstoppable in the college game and be a lock for the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. Instead, his stock will continue to slide.

Aaron Craft got lucky, too. Unlike Zeller, at least Craft bailed out himself. All many fans will remember is his 3-pointer at the buzzer. They won’t recall his late-game errors—the two missed front ends of one-and-one, his careless turnover, his should-have-been blocking call that could’ve put Iowa State up four, his poor decisions to freeze out his much more potent teammates in the final minute, to dribble out the shot clock and then the game clock before, as a 29.3 percent 3-point shooter, launching long-range jumpers. But the shot went in. From goat to hero, just like that.

Khalif Wyatt? Not so much. The Temple senior was a one-man wrecking crew this weekend, lighting up N.C. State for 31 points on Friday and hitting IU with another 31 on Sunday. He hit pull-up 3s, step-back 3s, mid-range jumpers in the lane and rim runs, he scored on backdoor cuts, found the open man out of double-teams and hit 16 of 18 free throws this weekend. But he couldn’t do it all. Wyatt deserved to extend his career another game. Alas, his teammates could only get 21 points Sunday, playing much of the time four-on-three because the Hoosiers were trapping and double-teaming Wyatt.

John Adams is a standup guy. The NCAA coordinator of referees has little contact with referees during the season. Outside of a few regional seminars in the summer, he isn’t allowed to train them, isn’t allowed to formally critique them, isn’t allowed to coach them up. He knows how the game is supposed to be called and is the NCAA’s top ref but has no authority—other than NCAA Tournament game assignments—over any of them. Yet, there he is on TV during the tournament, bad call after bad call, trying to explain why amid the fans’, players’ and coaches’ fury.

The “Southwest Philly Floater.” Somehow, we all feel a little more hip now that we know the definition of a “Southwest Philly Floater.” With time dwindling in a tie game, La Salle’s Tyrone Garland took the ball from the top of the key, split the Ole Miss zone twice by driving past four Rebels and across the lane to hit a running scoop shot over the outstretched hands of Reginald Buckner. How’s a big man from Memphis supposed to stop a “Southwest Philly Floater”?

Mike Rosario has a flashback. Once upon a time, Rosario was a 16-point-a-night scorer in the Big East, spending his first two years at Rutgers. Since transferring to Florida, though, he’s been a role player. In his final NCAA Tournament, the senior has transformed into a star again. A career 32 percent 3-point shooter, Rosario hit eight of 14 this weekend from long range. He was a big-time force Sunday night, lighting up Minnesota with 25 points.

Brett Comer is a magician. If there’s something old-school about the game of Florida Gulf Coast point guard Brett Comer, it’s because he’s as free-flowing as his idol, Pistol Pete Maravich. “The way he passed the ball really fascinated me," Comer said of his film study. Comer does nothing without style points. There are behind the back passes, scoop alley-oops, over-the-shoulder dump offs, you name it. He has 24 assists in two NCAA Tournament games, the catalyst for America’s new favorite team. All that’s missing are the floppy socks.

Say hello to ... Miami backup Rion Brown. On a night when Durand Scott was shut out for the first 30 minutes and Trey McKinney-Jones was ineffective, too, coach Jim Larranaga gave extended minutes to Brown. He rewarded the coach’s confidence by knocking down five 3-pointers and scoring 21 points—his seventh double-digit game of the season, by the way—to rescue the Hurricanes and lead Miami to a four-point win over Illinois.

Say goodbye to ... Ashley Judd’s political career. She’s not even yet an official politician and she’s already flip-flopping. A Democrat, Judd is expected to run for the U.S. Senate seat belonging to Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, in 2014. No doubt the biggest Kentucky basketball fan alive, this weekend she angered Big Blue Nation when she tweeted out her support for arch-rival Louisville in an attempt to curry favor with the state’s largest and heavily democratic city. Americans can handle politicians flip-flopping on policy, but cheering for your rival sports team? Unforgivable.

Say a prayer for ... Ben McLemore’s confidence. It’s hard to know what’s going on in the KU star’s head right now. He was one of the dominant players in the country all season—a top-five pick in whatever NBA Draft he chooses to enter—but yet he had the most miserable first weekend of the NCAA Tournament imaginable. He was 2-for-14 from the field and 0-for-8 on 3s. Bill Self even benched him during KU’s decisive second-half surge against North Carolina on Sunday.